Improved water-proof collar



UNITED STATES PATENT EErcEo HENRY O. GIBSON, OF OAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVED WATER-PROOF COLLAR.

-fcollar and the lightness, comfort, beauty, and

cheapness of a paper collar with much greater durability.

To enable others skilled in the art to make use of my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction.

Muslim or linen cloth oi' a suitable quality is stretched upon and-secured to a wooden frame made to fit over a table having a smooth surface, when a coating composed of the following ingredientswhite glue, white lead in oil, y

linseed-oilin equal parts by weight, boiled with water sufficient to bring it to the consistence of linseed-oil-is applied with a brush and rubbed well into the cloth. It is then removed from the table and dried, when two or more coatings of white-zinc paint mixed with turpentine and White varnish are applied to one side of the cloth, and after being well dried the cloth is taken from the frame and passed through calender-rollers until a smooth and polished surface is obtained. 'Io the unenameled side of the cloth is then secured by paste one thickness of white paper, and after being dried the whole is again passed through steamheated caiender-rollers, when the material is in a proper state to be worked into collars, 85o., in the usual way. If it is desired to render the paper side of the material water-proof also, a glazing of enamel composed of one part mica, one part white wax dissolved in turpentine by the agency of steam heat, to which is added an impalpable powder or" white marble-dust sufficient to bring it to the consistence of milk, is applied, and after being dried a polished surface is obtained by friction with 'a hard brush.

I do not claim a collar made by combining unprepared cloth with paper by means ot' paste or other adhesive substance; neitherdo I claim an enameled paper collar; but

What I do claim, and desire to have secured by Letters Patent., is-

A gentlemans water-,proof collar the interior side ot' which is made ot' cloth prepared substantially as herein described or otherwise, and the exterior or paper side, with or without glazing or enamel, made to resemble linen or other textile fabrics in use for the purpose, all as herein described.

HENRY C. GIBSON.

Vitnesses:

J. B. SHAW, A. M. SHAW. 

